Afternoon events, LGBT, free events

Music-making in a creative and supportive environment. Bring an instrument (which could be your voice) and join in with singing, playing or just listening.

A historical chat with Rupert Smith to celebrate the Royal Vauxhall Tavern's 150th birthday.

Scotland's first national LGBT helpline is live, allowing LGBT folks and their loved ones to call for advice each Tue and Wed afternoon and evening.

The annual shindig returns with all the usual elements: gather from noon at the Scottish Parliament, before the march sets off at after speeches, winding its merry way up the Royal Mile and along George IV Bridge, before terminating at Bristo Square, where there'll be entertainment in Teviot and a performance space…

Informal meet-up for gay or bisexual men over 40.

A chance for gay and bisexual men over 40 to meet others in an informal setting.

Ann Cvetkovich looks at the possibilities of a queer community politics and how aspects of queer life and intimacy are depathologised to create new modes of creative survival.

Terre Thaemlitz reads from Soulnessless – Introduction and discusses whether seeing transexuality as an unbecoming rather than a becoming would allow a kind of deprogramming in relation to ideas of the self, the soul or religion.

Monthly informal event for transgender people and their partners, family and friends. A welcoming environment for a chat and a cuppa, plus film screenings for those who fancy it.

Vogue’ology examines the roots of the House & Ballroom Scene and discusses its response to intersecting race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions with womanist theologian Eboni Marshall Turman.

Vogue’ology examines the roots of the House & Ballroom Scene and discusses its response to intersecting race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions with womanist theologian Eboni Marshall Turman.